Significance of serum pepsinogen and abomasal pH levels in a field infection of O circumcincta in lambs.

  • 13 December 1975
    • journal article
    • Vol. 97  (24) , 468-71
Abstract
Serum pepsinogen estimations from serially bled lambs grazing on pasture from spring to autumn showed correlations with the availability of Ostertagia larvae on pasture, with faecal egg counts of O circumcincta, and with Ostertagia worm counts in similar lambs slaughtered fort-nightly from the same pasture. In the slaughtered lambs correlations were recorded between worm count, serum pepsinogen level and abomasal pH. The value of serum pepsinogen estimations as a diagnostic test is discussed with reference to these findings.

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